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Definition of Gorges

Gorge
Gorge Gorge, n. (Angling) A primitive device used instead of a fishhook, consisting of an object easy to be swallowed but difficult to be ejected or loosened, as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
Gorge
Gorge Gorge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gorged; p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging.] [F. gorger. See Gorge, n.] 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. The fish has gorged the hook. --Johnson. 2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate. The giant gorged with flesh. --Addison. Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. --Dryden.
Gorge
Gorge Gorge, n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, g[.r] to devour. Cf. Gorget.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach. Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain. --Spenser. Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it. --Shak. 2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion. 3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl. And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest. --Spenser. 4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river. 5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. --Gwilt. 6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley. Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. --Knight.
Gorge
Gorge Gorge, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. --Milton.

Meaning of Gorges from wikipedia

- also refer to: Gorges, Loire-Atlantique, France Gorges, Manche, France Gorges, Somme, France Cognin-les-Gorges, Isère, France Three Gorges, a region in...
- downstream of the Three Gorges. The world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW), the Three Gorges Dam generates 95±20 TWh...
- The Three Gorges (simplified Chinese: 三峡; traditional Chinese: 三峽; pinyin: Sānxiá) are three adjacent and sequential gorges along the middle reaches of...
- Colonization in North America," even though Gorges himself never set foot in the New World. Ferdinando Gorges was born between 1565 and 1568, probably in...
- Dadès Gorges, or Dades Valley (Arabic: مضايق دادس; French: Gorges du Dadès, pronounced [ɡɔʁʒ(ə) dy dadɛs]) are a series of rugged wadi gorges carved...
- Selja Gorges (from the traditionnal transcription fr. Gorges de Selja) or the Thelja Gorges as more recently transcribed from Arabic (arabic حلق الثالجة)...
- Gorges may refer to: Richard Gorges (1662–1728), Anglo-Irish politician Richard Gorges (Augher MP) (1709–1778), Anglo-Irish politician Richard Gorges...
- 1623 to 1624. He was the son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. After having served in the Venetian wars, Gorges was given a commission as Governor-General of New...
- The Qutang Gorge (Chinese: 瞿塘峽; pinyin: Qútáng Xiá) is the shortest of China's Three Gorges. Immediately downstream of the ancient village Baidicheng (白帝城)...
- 2020, two w****s before her 32nd birthday. Julia Görges was born in Bad Oldesloe to Klaus and Inge Görges, both of whom work in insurance. She has one elder...